"All this region is very level and full of forests, vines and butternut trees. No Christian has ever visited this land and we had all the misery of the world trying to paddle the river upstream." Samuel de Champlain

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

The demise of Terry the Fracosaurus

"Comedian Stephen Colbert pilloried the propaganda as the fracking industry's equivalent of Joe Camel. Colbert compared fracking to "giving the earth an Alka-Seltzer, if the Alka-Seltzer shattered your internal organs so that oil companies could harvest your juices." The coloring book, sugested Colbert, left out the real story about Terry the Fracosaurus: depressed by the drilling and fracking of his sacred fossil ancestors, Terry probably blew himself up in the shower after methane contaminated his water well."

I'm the second generation of my family that lives in Richelieu, Quebec, in Canada. My family tree, both from my mother's and my father's side, has its roots in Quebec since the beginning of the 1600s: my ancestors crossed the ocean from France, leaving Perche and Normandy behind them. Both French AND English are my mother tongues: I learned to talk in both languages when I was a baby, and both my parents were perfectly bilingual too.